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February 2008

That’s what research is all about… having fun and being innovative :-) I love the way the “MySong” work is presented through this blog entry… examples, people having fun on camera, the paper, the science behind the project. Great stuff.

I am in San Diego with Lee Dirks. I’ve had very interesting meeting with Lynn Fink and co, Mark Ellisman and team, and Fran Berman and the technical/scientific leadership of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It’s been a fantastic day. At the end, we were treated to a private

My team, and Dan Fay in particular, has been involved in the funding of the World Wide Telescope effort. I’ve seen demonstrations of it and it’s absolutely gorgeous. I was even lucky to see it running on a 4 x 3 large display wall with modifications to take advantage

When Radiohead released “In Rainbows” I downloaded it without paying. I had told myself then that if I liked it I would buy the CD, as I did today. Kudos to Radiohead for trying something different. Now, if they had only included Seattle as part of their tour (I saw

According to their technology page, they don’t use Flash or Silverlight which is hard to believe given what they show in their guided tour. Also, they suggest an “automatic sync” of files between a desktop and the cloud. This cannot be achieved with just an in-browser app.

Back in June 2007 I switched from T-Mobile to ATT in order to get the Blackjack I because the salesman told me that WM6 was “just a couple of weeks away”. Early December I went to complain because the update was still not available. Unfortunately, they promised to get

Just spent the entire night at the office. It’s the ThinkWeek paper deadline today and I’ve been working on three of them!!! But it seems that we’ll submit all of them on time, if nothing goes wrong. I am very excited about the ideas we are proposing. Well, I hope